#need electrician

[roakkaliha]

i miss when youtubers would get called sellouts for doing One sponsorship, bc now u cant even say "hey this service ur promoting is an actual scam" without ten million losers crawling from their holes to defend their fav white men as if they were an endangered species.

[inkskinned]

the rise of AI art isn't surprising to us. for our entire lives, the attitude towards our skills has always been - that's not a real thing. it has been consistently, repeatedly devalued.

people treat art - all forms of it - as if it could exist by accident, by rote. they don't understand how much art is in the world. someone designed your home. someone designed the sign inside of your local grocery store. when you quote a character or line from something in media, that's a line a real person wrote.

"i could do that." sure, but you didn't. there's this joke where a plumber comes over to a house and twists a single knob. charges the guy 10k. the guy, furious, asks how the hell the bill is so high. the plumber says - "turning the knob was a dollar. the knowledge is the rest of the money."

the trouble is that nobody believes artists have knowledge. that we actively study. that we work hard, beyond doing our scales and occasionally writing a poem. the trouble is that unless you are already framed in a museum or have a book on a shelf or some kind of product, you aren't really an artist. hell, because of where i post my work, i'll never be considered a poet.

the thing that makes you an artist is choice. the thing that makes all art is choice. AI art is the fetid belief that art is instead an equation. that it must answer a specific question. Even with machine learning, AI cannot make a choice the way we can - because the choices we make have always been personal, complicated. our skills cannot be confined to "prompt and execution." what we are "solving" isn't just a system of numbers - it is how we process our entire existence. it isn't just "2 and 2 is 4", it's staring hard at the numbers and making the four into an alligator. it's rearranging the letters to say ow and it is the ugly drawing we make in the margin.

at some point, you will be able to write something by feeding my work into a machine. it will be perfectly legible and even might sound like me. but a machine doesn't understand why i do these things. it can be taught preferences, habits, statistical probability. it doesn't know why certain vowels sound good to me. it doesn't know the private rules i keep. it doesn't know how to keep evolving.

"but i want something to exist that doesn't exist yet." great. i'm glad you feel creative. go ahead and pay a fucking artist for it.

this is all saying something we all already knew. the sad fucking truth: we have to die to remind you. only when we're gone do we suddenly finally fucking mean something to you. artists are not replicable. we each genuinely have a skill, talent, and process that makes us unique. and there's actual quiet power in everything we do.

[clovergrowth]

i realy like mannequin_mark i want him to be my wife

[yugiohz]

congrats to eri for being the first bnha citizen under 15 who does NOT want to become a fucking hero

[adamarks]

Hello I have written a robot au

You can read it here if you’re so inclined

[xoxoemynn]

I know it's a much beloved fic trope to have Stede wipe the kohl off Ed's face and tell him he knows he's Ed, he's not the Kraken, he knows him, he loves him, etc. But I have to say, I actually really love that by the time they're reunited, Ed's face is clean.

Ed has been through hell, his heart has been broken, he hates himself, he feels unworthy of love...

But now he wants to live.

Yes, of course it's wonderful that Stede loves Ed so deeply, that he's returned to him, that he wants him to be safe and well and happy. But Ed needs to want that first. Ed needs to go on his own healing journey that isn't contingent on Stede.

And with his face already bare in front of Stede when they reunite, with him having been re-born on a beach, we see that's happening.

He's taking his first steps forward, and I am so excited to see this journey.

[iluvreid]

My mum’s gone out all day and forgot to tell me that an electrician is coming so now i’m just sat in my living room and he’s in the hallway. He’s drilling random shit and the powers gone out. If I die, get Aubrey Plaza to play me in the documentary 💔💔💔

[hercynianforest]

🧑🏻‍🏭😇

[dukeofthomas]

Honestly the only thing I can think of when watching Batman (or any villain) stuff is about the people who build the death contraptions. Like there had to be a whole construction crew to make that death trap. Who modded the bombs to look like Joker? Who makes Two-Face's suits? Where is Riddler getting all those question-mark shaped canes??

[knifekris]

every day i struggle to make choices

[dkettchen]

me waking up in a cold sweat at 6:20am: "I should get evening classes to be a hair dresser & training to be a makeup artist to be my own hair/make-up person on photo/video shoots and defy industry's single-gender-dominated-and-not-improving department segregation system like the all-rounder online creator that I am 👀😤"

[1eos]

As someone whos only into leo i did Not know that boygroups were going in a recession?? Like it makes sense cause ive only been hearing about itzy, newjeans and aespa i guess lately but i did not know things were THAT dire for the boy group economy. This is honestly really funny to me, 2nd gen kpop hags get older and start to move on with their lives and all of their companies just keep panic making boy groups😂😂😂

literally its like all the women w jobs who used to just throw crazy amounts of money at 2nd and 3rd gen groups and helped get them off the ground all said 'we retired' and then w That Group and its fans being how they are the well has dried up for men i fear. every other rookie girl group blows up to mega fame but its nothing for the boys its crazy 😭😭😭😭 and whats even crazier is that these companies will still insist on making these boy groups hoping the misogyny has kicked into the market or sumn like if y'all don't send them lil boys to TRADE SCHOOL

[ley-med]

Electrician: We will arrive tomorrow morning, between 8-12am.

Me: Okay, but I will be home only after 9am, since I'm working the night, please come between 9-12 am.

Electrician: Uh, fine, we'll see what we can do about that...

*next day, 8.53 am*

Electrician: We are here, where are you??

[loumauve]

the little girl at the bus stop just had the most enthusiastic, info-dump-y of rambles about how the bus that's coming is "literally the best bus" bc it's apparently bigger than the others which you "can see from its shape" and how great this bus ride is going to be

[monstroso]

guys i just went outside. did you know that little blonde perverts exist outside of the mind palace? did anyone else know about this??

[kaeyx]

today's society and we sexualise the working class men

🌱

Hell yeah brother 🫡 workers ftw always